{"id":11319,"date":"2012-08-02T20:26:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T01:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=11319"},"modified":"2012-08-02T20:27:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T01:27:27","slug":"customers-receiving-bogus-usps-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/08\/customers-receiving-bogus-usps-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Customers Receiving <BR>Bogus USPS Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><em>by Debra J. Mitchell \u2013 United States Postal Service<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Special to the Lehigh Acres \u00a0Gazette<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11320\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/customers-receiving-bogus-usps-emails\/fraud-label\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11320\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11320\" title=\"fraud label\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fraud-label.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fraud-label.jpg 220w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fraud-label-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fraudulent label that claims to be from USPS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is reporting that some customers are receiving bogus emails about a package delivery or online postage charges. The emails contain a link or attachment that, when opened, installs a malicious virus that steals information from personal computers.<\/p>\n<p>The emails, which claim to be from USPS, include a label with fraudulent information about an attempted or intercepted package delivery and \u201conline postage charges.\u201d Customers are told to click on a link, open the attachment or print the label.<\/p>\n<p>USPS has added a red banner to the top of the <em>usps.com <\/em>home page that draws attention to this scam. The banner links customers to the Postal Inspection Service\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/postalinspectors.uspis.gov\/radDocs\/consumer\/SpamAlert.pdf\">Crime Alert page<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<p>USPS is advising customers who receive a shipping label like this to not click on the link.\u00a0 Anyone receiving an email fitting this description should forward it to <em><a href=\"mailto:spam@uspis.gov\">spam@uspis.gov<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Zip\u2019s Tip: <\/strong>One of the country\u2019s oldest federal law enforcement agencies, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service has a long, proud and successful history of protecting the Postal Service, securing the nation\u2019s mail system and ensuring public trust in the mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Debra J. Mitchell \u2013 United States Postal Service Special to the Lehigh Acres \u00a0Gazette The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is reporting that some customers are receiving bogus emails about&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}